Display 0460:  Freshman Class -- Factual Attributes Snapshot

% New Freshmen in each category; from The CIRP Freshman Study*

 

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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Attribute

SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA
1 yr HS Grad 81 -- 94 95 67 96 78 96 79 96 95 97 95 97 95 97 95 97 95 97 93 97
18/19 yr.old 78 -- 96 83 76 95 81 94 85 95 92 95 95 96 93 96 94 96 94 96 94 96
Female 50 -- 57 54 59 56 58 56 61 57 54 63 59 63 51 58 54 59 51 59 55 58
Af/American 92 -- 97 9 90 18 91 29 90 30 96 27 94 24 95 26 93 26 96 26 93 25
>100 to home 51 -- 69 36 60 41 52 26 59 20 74 25 74 25 67 37 68 32 71 25 69 28
> C+ avg HS 77 -- 75 87 81 88 82 83 86 84 90 88 88 89 87 89 86 88 87 88 90 88
Presently married -- -- -- -- -- -- 1 1 1 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
1st Generat. in College 53 -- 51 44 42 43 37 48 37 45 37 40 41 42 33 42 36 45 36 42 39 44
<$25K/yr parent incm. 46 -- 45 18 33 21 40 31 35 29 34 22 35 21 33 19 34 25 32 18 30 22
Parents Live Together 41 -- 37 70 44 67 42 61 45 60 39 62 42 63 40 61 36 61 35 60 32 60
Political views characterized
 

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  SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA
Far left . 3 5 3 7 3 6 5 5 4 8 3 6 4 6 4 6 4 1 3 4 3
Liberal . 18 25 20 26 21 26 25 20 28 22 25 18 23 24 22 25 25 26 25 28 28
Middle of road . 52 50 58 49 59 55 54 62 52 53 54 51 54 52 51 51 52 48 48 44 47
Conservative . 25 18 17 17 16 13 15 12 16 15 16 21 18 15 21 16 18 24 22 23 21
Far right . 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 4 2 3 3 2 2 1 2 1 2
High School described
 

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  SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA
Completely non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 19 4 16 8
Mostly non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 39 15 36 22
Roughly half non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 26 22 32 23
Mostly White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 16 49 16 41
Completely White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1 9 0 6
Neighborhood where grew up described
 

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  SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA
Completely non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 35 9 34 14
Mostly non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 33 14 29 19
Roughly half non-White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 16 14 20 15
Mostly White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 15 42 15 36
Completely White -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2 21 2 16
Current religious preference?
 

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  SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA SSU USA
Baptist . 17 57 29 66 23 58 20 60 21 65 18 63 17 62 26 62 22 63 18 56 19
Buddhist . 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
Church of Christ . -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 8 5 5 6 5 6 10 6
Episcopal . 1 2 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
Islamic . 1 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Lutheran . 6 0 4 0 6 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 3 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 2
Methodist . 7 10 10 10 7 11 3 7 4 8 3 8 5 9 7 5 5 6 4 5 4
Presbyterian . 3 1 3 1 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 3 0 3 1 2 1 3
Roman Catholic . 28 5 21 4 25 2 32 4 29 1 28 2 29 2 24 2 27 2 27 2 27
Seventh Day Adventist . 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
United Church of Christ/Congregational . 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
Other Christian . 10 11 12 7 13 14 14 12 16 13 16 12 16 9 10 12 13 14 15 10 14
Other Religion . 3 3 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 3
None . 15 9 12 4 13 3 14 8 15 4 18 4 17 4 13 6 15 3 18 7 15
                                             
#  respond in sample 422 ** 221 ** 281 ** 259 ** 274 ** 340 ** 383 ** 333 ** 479 8917 341 9271 412 16,327

*     Each fall term, SSU participates in a national study of college freshmen conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, known as the "CIRP Freshman Survey".  The survey instrument, inquiring about over 300 issues, is administered by faculty in SSU's Freshman orientation course during the first two weeks of class.  Completed survey instruments are returned to UCLA for processing and findings are returned to SSU's Office of Institutional Research & Planning, which, in turn, reports the findings to University stakeholders for planning purposes. Results included in the report are for First Time, Full-Time Freshmen only.  All findings are based on students' self-reported data.

In a typical year, nearly 500 institutions and a quarter million students contribute to the study nationally.  At SSU, approximately 3-400 new freshmen (on average) participate annually; typically, this has been about half the freshman class.  Results are not always exactly comparable across institutions and years because different institutions survey their students differently in different years and the sample responding is not technically a scientifically random one.  But the study has been on-going for over 30 years and the number of participants is sufficiently large that results are generally considered highly reflective of the whole freshman class, nationally.  The national norm to which SSU is compared (USA) is students enrolled in public 4-year colleges.  In the above tables, categories for which at least 1% of SSU's students have not responded have been suppressed.